Disney and the Dialectic of Desire

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<p>This book analyzes Walt Disney¿s impact on entertainment, new media, and consumer culture in terms of a materialist, psychoanalytic approach to fantasy. The study opens with a taxonomy of narrative fantasy along with a discussion of fantasy as a key concept within psychoanalytic discourse. Zornado reads Disney¿s full-length animated features of the "golden era" as symbolic responses to cultural and personal catastrophe, and presents Disneyland as a monument to <i>Disney fantasy</i> and one man¿s singular, perverse desire. What follows after is a discussion of the "second golden age" of Disney and the rise of Pixar Animation as neoliberal<i> </i>nostalgia in crisis. The study ends with a reading of George Lucas as latter-day Disney and <i>Star Wars </i>as <i>Disney fantasy</i>. This study should appeal to film and media studies college undergraduates, graduates students and scholars interested in Disney.</p>

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<p><b>Joseph L. Zornado</b> is Professor of English at Rhode Island College, USA. He is the author of <i>Inventing the Child: Culture, Ideology, and the Story of Childhood </i>(2001/2007) and of a speculative fantasy in three volumes entitled <i>2050: A Future History</i>, (2014).  He has also co-authored <i>Professional Writing for Social Work Practice</i> (2014) and <i>Professional Writing for the Criminal Justice System</i> (Springer 2017).</p>

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